The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, November 26, 1890, Image 4
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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Text. ' Forasmuch as thou knowest how
v e are to encamp in the wilderness.”—Num.
s., 31.
Night after night we have slept in tent in
Palestine. There are large villages of Bedou
ins without a house, and for three thousand
vears the people of those places have lived in
black tents, made out of dyed skins, and
•when the winds and storms wore out and tore
loose those coverings others of the same kind
took their places.
Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent.
•Jacob pitehed his tent on the mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot
pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general, to
the ground, first having given him sour milk
called “lebeu” as a soporific to make him
sleep soundly, that being the effect of such
nutrition, as modern travelers can testify.
The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient
battle shout was “To your tents, O Israel!’ ,
Paul was a tent maker. Indeed,Isaiah,mag
nificently poetic, indicates that all the human
race live under a blue tent when he says God
“stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,’’and
Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a
tent, saying, “My age is removed from me
as a shepherd’s tent.”
In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear
something I never heard before ancj hope
never to hear again. It is the voice of a
hyena amid the rocks near by. When you
may have seen this monster putting his
month between the iron bars of a menagerie
he is a captive, and he gives a humiliated
and suppressed cry. But yonder in the mid
night on a throne of rocks he has nothing to
fear, and he utters himself in a loud, re
sounding, terriffiCi almost supernatural
scuud, splitting up the darkness into a
deeper midnight. It begins with a howl and
cods with a sound something like a horse’s
whining. In the hyena’s voice are defiance
and strength and bloodthirstiness and crunch
of broken bones and death.
1 am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The
leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared, and
the lions that once were common all through
this land, and used by all the prophets for
illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have re
treated before the discharges of gunpowder,
of which they have an indescribable fear. Buc
for the most part Palestine is what it origi
nally was. With the one exception of a
wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jeru
salem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and
from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Ti
berias to Damascns, that one nerve of civili
zation, the telegraphic wire (for we found
rmrselves only a few minutes off from Brook-
'yn and New York while standing by Lake
Galilee), with that one exception Palestine
is just as it always was.
Nothing surprised me so much as the per
sistence of everything. A sheep or horse
falls dead, and though the sky may one min
ute before be clear of all wings in five min
utes after the skies are black with eagles
cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for
room, contending for largest morsels of the
extinct quadruped. Ah, now I understand
the force of Onrist’s illustration when He
said “Wheresoever the carcass is there will
the eagles be gathered together.” The long
evity of those eagles is wonderful. They
live fifty and sixty and sometimes a hundred
years. Ah, that explains what David meant
when he said: “Tfty youth is renewed like the
eagle’s.” 1 saw a shepherd with the folds of
bis coat far bent outward, and I wondered
what was contained in that amplitude of ap-
uarel, and I said to the dragoman: “What
has that shepherd got under his coat?” And
the dragoman t?aid: *Tt is a very young lamb
he is carrying; it is too young and too weak
aqd too cold to keep up with the flock.” At
that moment I saw the lamb put its head out
from the shepherd’s bosom and 1 sai®:'“There
it is now.^ Isaiah's description of the tender
ness of God—he shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his bosom.”
Passing by a village home, in the Holy
Land, about noon I saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and I said to the
dragoman: “David, what is going on there?”
He said: “Somebody has recently died there,
and their neighbors go in for several days
after to sit down and weep with the be
reaved.'' There it is, I said, the old scrip
tural custom, “And many of the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them con
cerning their brother.” Early in the morn •
ing passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land
I saw among the graves about fifty women
dressed in black,and they were crying 1 “Oh,
my child!” “Ob, my husband. “Ob, my
father!*’ “Ob, my mother!” Our dragoman
told us that every morning, very early for
three mornings alter a burial, the women go
to the sepulcher, and after that every week
very early for a year. As I saw this group
just after daybreak I saief: “There it is again,
the* same old custom referred to in Luke, the
evangelist, where he says, ‘Certain women
which were early in the sepulcher.’’’
Rut here we found ourselves at Jacob’s
w ell, the most famous well in history, most
distinguished for two things, because it be
longed to the old patriarch after whom it
was named, and for the wonderful things
which Christ said, seated cn this well curb,
to the Samaritan woman. We dismount
II om our horses in a drizzling rain, and our
dragoman, climbing up to the well over
the slippery stones, stumbles and fright-
ms us all by nearly falling into it. I meas
ured the w'ell at the top and found it six feet
1 rom edge to edge. Some grass and weed*
rna thorny growths overhang It. In one
} lace the roof is broken through. Large stones
embank the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time^ they left his
hand to the instant they clicked on the bot
tom you could hear it was deep, though not
as deep as once, for every day travelers are
applying the same test, and though in the
time of Maundrell, the traveler,the well was
a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is
only seventy-five. 8o great is the curiosity
of the world to know about that well that
during the dry season a Captain Anderson
descended into this well, at one place the
sides so close he had to put his hands over his
head in order to get through, and then he
fainted away and lay at the bottom of the
well as though dead, until hours after reoov.i
cry he came to the surface.
It is not like other wells digged down lo a
fountain that fills it, but a reservoir to catch
ft*** falling rains, and to that Christ refers
when speaking to the Samaritan woman about
a spiritual supply He said He would,if asked,
have given her “living water.’’ that is, water
from a flowing spring in distinction from the
water of the well, which was rain water. But
why did Jacob make a reservoir there when
there is plenty of water all around and
abundance of springs and fountains and seem
ingly no need of . that reservoir!' Why did
Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and
digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep
as first completed, when, by going a little
way off, he could navt» water from other
icontains at little or no expense? Ah, Jacob
w as wise. He wanted his own well. Quarrels
and wars might arise with other tribe-! and
the supply of water might be cut off, so the
shovels and pickaxes and boring instruments
were ordered, and the well of nearly four
thousand years ago was sunk through the
solid rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having
hisown well he taught us not to be unneces
sarily dependent on others. Independence
cf business character, independence of moral
(haracter, independence of leligious char
acter. Have your own well of grace, your
• wn w ell of courage, your own well of divine
supply. If you are an invalid you have a
l ight to be dependent on others. But if God
has given you good health, common sense
and two eyes and two ears and .two hands
and two feet, He equipped for independ
ence of all the universe except Himself. If
He had meant you to be dependent on others
you would have been built with a cord
around your waist to tie fast to somebod*
• s T’ y° u are 1,11111 with common sense
• fashion your own opinions, with eyes to
find your own way, with ears to select your
own music, with hands to fight your own
rattles. There is only one being in the uni
verse whose ad vice you need and that is God.
Have your own well and the Lord will fill it.
Dig it if need be through two hundred feet
of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig
it w ith your yard stick, or dig it with your
shovel, or dig it witftvour Bible.
fn my small way I never accomplished
anything for God or the church,or the world,
« r my family, or myself, except in contradic
tion to human advicre and in obedience to
«.ivine counsel. God knows everything, and
what is the use of going for advice to human
» eings who know so little that no one but the
»11 seeing God can realise how little it is? I
m >pose that when Jacob began to dig this
well on which we are sitting this noontide
peonle gathered around and said, “What a
us dess expefnse you are going to, when roll
ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim and
•town from yonder Mount Ebal and oul
yonder in the valley is plenty of water!”
Dh,’ replied Jacob, “that is all true, but
NUpfiosemy neighbors should get angered
against me and cut off my supply of mount
ain beverage, what would I do, and what
would my family do, and what would my
rocks and herds do? Forward, ye brigade of
pickaxes and crowbars, and go down into the
depths of these rocks and make me independ
ent of all except Him who fills the bottles of
••» * cloudsl I must have my own well!”
"ung man, drop cigars and cigarettes
an t wine cups and the Hunday excursions
and build your own house, and have your
own wardrobe,and be your own capitalist!
“Wby, I have only five hundred dollars in
come a year!” says some one. Then spend
four hundred dollars of it in living, and ten
C r cent, of it, or fifty dollars, in benevo-
ice, and the other fifty in beginning to
dig your own well. Or if you have a thou
sand dollars a year spend eight hundred
dollars of it in living, ten per cent., or one
hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the re
maining one hundred in beginning to dig your
own well. The largest bird that ever flew
through the air was hatched out of one egg,
and the greatest estate was brooded out of
one dollar.
I suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well, on whose curb we are now seated this
December noon,it was a dry season then as
now, and some one comes up and says:
“Now Jacob, suppose you get the well fifty
feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there
should be no water to fill it, would you not
feel silly?” People passing along the road
and looking down from Mount Gerizim or
Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say:
“That is Jacob’s well, a great nole in the
rock, illustrating the man’s folly.” Jacob
replied: “There never has been a well in
Palestine or any other country that once
thoroughly dug was not sooner or later filled
from the clouds, and this will be no excep
tion.”
For months after Jacob had completed the
well people went by, and out of respect for
the deluded old man put their hand over
their mouth to hide a snicker, and the well
remained as dry as the bottom of a kettle
that had been hanging over the fire for three
hours. But one day the sun was drawing
water, and the wind got round to the east
and it began to drizzle, and then great drops
splashed all over the well curb, and the
heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy
season poured its floods for six weeks, and
there came maidens to tho well with empty
pails and carried them away full, and the
camels thrust their mouths into the troughs
and were satisfied, and tiie water was in the
well three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, and
two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedouins
of the neighborhood and all the passersby
realized that Jacob was wise in having his
own well. My hearer, it is your part to dig
your own well, and it is God’s part to fill it.
You do your part and He will do His part.
Much is said about “good luck,” but peo
ple who are industrious and &I' denying al
most always have good luck. You can af
ford to be laughed at because of your appli
cation and economy, for when you get your
well dug and filled it will be your turn to
; laugh.
But look up from this famous well and
' see two mountains and the plain between
them, on which was gathered the largest
! religious audience that ever assembled on
earth, about five hundred thousand people.
Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred toot
high, on one side, and on the other Mount
Ebal, the former called the Mount of Bless
ing and the latter called the Mount of
Cursing. At Joshua’s command six tribes
stood on Mount Gerizim and read the
blessings for keening the law, and six
tribes stood on Mount Ebal readme the
curses iur oreaKing tne law', while tho five
hundred thousand people on the plain cried
Amen with an emphasis that must have
made the earth tremble. “I do not believe
that,” says some one, “for those mountain
tops are two miles apart, and how could a
voice be heard from top to top?” My answer
is that while the tops are two miles apart,
th » bases of the mountains are only half a
mile apart, and the tribes stood on the sides
of the mountains, and the air is so clear and
the acoustic qualities of this great natural
amphitheatre so perfect that voices can bo
distinctly heard from mountain to mount
ain, as has been demonstrated by travelers
fifty times in the last fifty years.
Can you imagine anything more thrilling
ami sublime and overwhelming than what
transpired on those two mountain sides, and
in the plain between, when the responsive
service went on and thousands of voices on
Mount Gerizim cried, “Blessed shalt thou be
In the city, and blessed shalt thou bo in the
fields, blessed shall be thy basket and thy
store,” and then from Mount Ebal, thousands
of voices responded, crying: “Cursed be he
that removetli his neighbor’s landmark!
Cursed be he that rnaketh the blind to wan
der out of the way,” and then there rolled up
from all the spaces between the mountains
that one word with which the devout of earth
close their prayers and the glorified of heaven
finish their doxologies, “Amen! Ahien!”—
that scene only to be surpassed by the
times which are coming, when the churches
and the academies of music and the audi
toriums of earth, no longer large enough to
hold the worshipers of God; the parks, the
mountain sides, the great natural amphithe
atres of the valleys, shall be filled with the
outpouring populations of the earth and
mountain shall reply to mountain, as Mount
Gerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the people
between shall ascribe riches and honor and
glory and dominion and victory to God the
Lamb, and there.ehail arise an amen like the
booming of the heavens mingling with the
thunder of the seas.
On and on we ride, until now we have
come to Bhiloh, a deafl city on a hill sur
rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gardens
an 1 vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward
and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news
from his bad boys, Phineas and Hophni, and
life is not wori»u living after one’s children
have turned out badly, and more fortunate
was Eli, instantly expiring under such tid
ings, than those parents who, their children
recreant and profligate, live on with broken
hearts to see them going down into deeper
and deeper plunge. There are fathers and
mothers here to-day to whom death would be
happy release because of their recreant sons.
And if there be recreant sons here present,
and your parents be far away, why not bow
your head in repentance, and at the close of
this service goto the telegraph office and put
it on the wing of the lightningthat you have
turned from your evil ways? Before another
twenty-four nours have pasted take your feet
off the sad hearts of ..the old homestead.
Home to thy God, O prodigal!
Many, many letters do I get in purport say
ing: My son is in your cities; we have not
heard from him for some time; wo fear some-
;ood
)OUt
him; he is a child of many prayers. But how
can f hunt him up unless he lie in this audi
ence? Where are you, my boy? On the main
floor, or on this platform, or in these boxes,
or in these great galleries? Where are you?
Lift your right hand. I have a message t rom
home. Your father is anxious about you:
your mother is prayiug for you. Your God
is calling for you. Or will you w ait until Eli
fallc Vtanlr lifnlooo or»rl flio t.oo*«+ onroinut wUir.U
yim i»y iu mutney cearms io oeatr »v nnc »
.tory to tell iu eternity that you killed her?
Mv God I Avert that cat^trouhe!
nut 1 turn from this Shiloh of Eli's sud
den decease under bad news from his boys
and find close by what is called the “Meadow
of the Feast."' While this ancient city was
in the height of its prosperity on this “Mea
dow of the Feast ’ there was an annual ball
where the maidens of the city amid dapping
cymbals and a blare of trumpets danced in
glee, upon which thousands of spectators
gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever
broke up in such a strange way as the one the
Bible describes. One night while by the
light of the lamps and torches these gay ieties
went on, two hundred Benjamites, who had
lieen bidden behind the rocks and among the
trees, dashed upon the scone. They came
not to injure or destroy, but wishing to set
up household of their own, the women of
their own land having been slain in liattle,
by preconcerted arrangemeift each one of the
two hundred Benjamites seized the one
whom he chose for the queen of his home
and carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these two hundred
Benjamites had inherited the wealtli of a
nation.
As to-day near Shiloh we look at tho
Meadow of the Feast,” where the maidens
danced that night, and at the mountain
gorge up which the Benjamites carried their
brides, we bethink ourselves of the better
land and the better times in which we live,
when such scenes are an impossibility, and
amid orderly groups and with prayer and
benediction, ^nd breath of orange blossoms,
and the roll.fif the wedding march, marriage
u solemnized and with oath recorded in
heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on
a journey to last until death do them part.
Upon every such marriage altar may there
come the blessing of Him “who setteth the
solitary m families!” Side by side on the
g ath of life! Side by side in their graves!
ide by" side in heaven!
"But we must this afternoon, our last day
before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent on
the most famous battlefield of all time- the
w Nazareth?
Not a flower blooms there but has in it* veins
the inherited blood of flowers that drank the
blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot of
ground that has not at some time been gul
lied with war chariots or trampled with the
hoofs of cavalry.
It i« a plain reaching from the Mediter
ranean to the Jordan. Upon it look down
the nxmnteina of Tabor and Gilboa and Car
mel. Through its rages at certain seasons
the river Kuhon, which swept down the
armies of Kisera, the battle occurring in No*
veipher when there is almost always a shower
of meteoiwso that the "stars in their courses"
were said to have fought against Sisera.
Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iron
chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at the
hulls of the wheels, hewing down their awful
swathes of death, thousands in a minute.
The Syrian armies, the Turkieh armies, the
Egyptian armies again and again trampled
it. 1 here they career across it. David and
Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Cceur de
Dion and Baldwin and Saladin—a plain not
only famous for the past, but famous because
tho Bible says the groat decisive battle of the
world will he fought there-the battle of Ar
mageddon.
i o me the plain wae the more absorbing
IwcauM of the dssperate battles here and iu
thing is wrong; hunt him up and say a g<
word to him ;his mother is almost crazy air
regions round in which the holy cross—the
very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was
supposed to hare been crucified—was carried
as a standard at the head of the Christian
host, and that night closing my eyes in my
tent on the plain of Eadraelon—for there
are some things we can see bettor with eyes
shut than open—the scenes of that ancient
war come before me. The twelfth century
was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty
thousand mounted troops was crying: “Ho!
for Jerusalem!” “Ho! for all Palestine! ’and
before them everything went down, but not
without unparalleled resistance. In one
place one hundred and thirty Christians
were surrounded by many thousands of furi
ous Mohammedans. For one whole day the
one hundred and thirty held out against
these thousands. Tennyson’s “six hundred,’’
when “some one had blundered,” were
eclipsed by these one hundred and thirty
fighting for the holy cross They took hold
of the lances which had pierced them with
death wounds, and pulling them out of their
own breasts and sides hurled them back again
at the enemy.
On went the fight until all but one Chris
tian had fallen and he, mounted on the last
horse, wielded his battle ax right and left till
his horse fell under the plunge of the jave
lins, and the rider, making the sign of the
cross toward the sky, gave up bis life on the
f ioint of a score of spears. But soon after the
ast battle came. History portrays it, poetrv
chants it, painting colors it, and all ages ad
mire that lust struggle to keep in possession
the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to
have expired. It was a battle In which min
gled the fury of devils and the grandeur of
angels. Thousands of dead Christians on
this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans
on the other side. The battle was hot
test close around tie wooden cross upheld by
the bishop of Ptolemais, himself wounded
and dying. And when the bishop of Ptol
emais dropped dead, the bishop of Lydda
seized the cross and again lifted it. carrying
it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and
sword against javelin, and battle ax upon
helmet, and piercing spear against splinter
ing shield. Horses ami man tumbled into
heterogeneous death. Now the wooded
cross on which the armies of Christians had
kept their eye begins to waver, begins to
descend. It falls! and the wailing of tho
Christian host at its disappearance drowns
tiie huzza of the victorious Moslems.
But 1 hat standard of the cross only seemed
to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph.
Five hundred million souls, the mightiest
army of the ages, are following it, and where
that goes they will go, across the earth and
up the mighty steeps of the heavens. In the
twelfth century it seemed to go down, but in
the nineteenth century it is tho mightiest
symbol of glory and triumph, and means
more than any other standard, whether in
scribed witli eagle, or lion, or bear, or star,
or crescent. That which Saladin trampled
on the plain of Esdraelon I lift to day for
your marshaling. The cross! Tiie crossl
The foot of it planted in the earth it saves,
tho top of it pointing to the heavens to which
it will take you, and the outspread beams of
it like outstretched arms of invitation to all
nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eye
to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance to
its jiower. And as that mighty symbol of
pain and triumph is kept before ns, we will
realize how insignificant are the little crosses
we are called to bear, and will more cheer
fully carry them.
Must .Teens bear the cross stone.
Mid the world go free?
No, theie’s a crosa for every one,
And (here’s a cross for me.
As 1 fall asleep tonight on my pillow in the
lent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching from
Ilia .Mediterranean to the Jordan, the waters
of the river Kishon soothing me as by a lul
laby, I hear the gathering of the hosts for the
last battle of all the earth. And by their
representatives America is here and Europe
is here and Asia is here and Africa is here,
and all heaven is here and all hell is here,
and Apollyon on the black horse leads the
armies of darkness^ and Jesus on the white
horse leads the armies of light, and I hear
the roll of the drums and the clear callof the
clarions and the t hunder of the cannonades.
And then I hear the wild rush as of million
of troops in retreat, and then the shout of
victory as from fourteen hundred million
throats, and then a song as though all the
armies of earth and heaven were Joining it,
clapping cymbals, beating the time—“The
kingdoms of this world are become the king
doms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He
shall reign for ever and ever ”
Ihe Gold Ceil in Alaska.
Alaska is a country worth look!do
after sharply. The PribyloH Islands are
the richest centre of seal fishing in the
mure clausum that bears the name of
Behring. Five hundred miles cast of tho
PribyloH Islands is the Alaskan penin
sula. A thousand miles cast of the Alas
kan peninsula, and parted from it by a
stormy and inclement ocean, lies the
fertile and gold bearing region which the
Canadians are annexing by survey to an
unknown extent. This, in natural wealth
possibly the most valuable part of Alas
ka, seems a narrow strip on the map. But
its landward boundary, in a bee line, is
as long as from the eastern boundary of
Maine to Philadelphia, and its area is
greater than that of all New England.
But the boundary of this little inter
esting strip of land between the moun
tains and. the sea is not a bee line. It is
a little straighlcr than a corkscrew, hut
not nearly so straight as a rainbow. Tho
virgin summits of untrodden mountains
are the boundary line when the ranges Uo
within ten leagues of the sea and paral
lel with the coast. Whenever this diffl-
cult guide to tho surveyor is not at
hand, an exact parallel to the tortuous
windings of the coast line must be laid
out. lo carry this imaginary thread
tlyough an icy desert of uninhabited
mountain forests and glaciers fora dis
tance of at least 600 miles is the task for
which it is now proposed to nppropriato
$100,000.
A clear title to the territory in dispute
must Ire demonstrated, Canadian surveys
refuted, and the right of American citi
zens to work American gold mines es
tablished. Truly the sum is not extrava
gant.—liotlon Advert iter.
TIIE FARM AND GARDEN.
A Sensitive Balance.
In a lecture to the British Association
on his now celebrated quartz fibres, Pro
fessor C. V. Boys '’xhibited the applica
tion of the minute threads as suspenders
for extremely delicate apparatus. The
heat from a eandlc at the extreme end of
the hull was sufficient to turn it mirror
suspended from one of the fibres, the
movement being made visible by the
spot of light reflected on a screen. A
musical rote even produced a deflection
of the spot. What was perhaps even
more wonderful was the demonstration
that attraction so small as the flS-mil-
lionth of a grain might be weighed, the
attraction of gravity of that amount pro
ducing a visible effect on a torsion bal
ance made of the quartz fibre.—Trenton
(N. J.) American.
The band of France has consented tv
supply Madrid with 800,000. pounds ra
New towns are springing up In Mary
land and growing like Jonah's gourd.
Over 0,000,090 letters are seat to tht
Dead Letter Oiliuc annuail^.
■WORN-OUT APPLE TREES.
An orchard needs manuring os well as
a cornfield, and the cause of the failure
oi the fruit is no doubt the
poverty of the soil. Small, gnarly fruit
indicates starvation of the trees. The
trees should be well pruned as soon as
convenient and a few loads of manure
ipread over the orchard. It would be
useful to plow the manure in and in the
ipring sow clover, which may be turned
under with a dressing of lime next fall.
—h'ew York Timet.
HARVESTING THE APPLE CEOP.
The gathering of fruit is at all times
an operation requiring care and tender
handling. In the case of apples, a
iqueezc, or drop, hard enough to pro
duce a bruise, renders them unfit for
keeping purposes, on which much of
their value depends. There is
an additional reason for careful hand-
ting tho present season, owing to the
scarcity or the crop and the high priee
of the fruit. In picking from the trees,
baskets with smooth bottoms should be
used, and the apples laid, not dropped
into them. By a rough handling of the
basket iu the interior of a tree or care
less movements of the ladder around its
outside, a careless picker cm easily cause
more loss in au hour than his wages for
the entire day would be worth. The
same man or the same ones, where more
than one is required, should always re
ceive the baskets and do the packing.
Place the first two rows stem end down
against the head to be taken out when
the barrel is opened for sale or use.
Uniformity in size should be observed as
closely as possible. It is always best to
make two qualities when barreling, and
the present season, when even very in
ferior apples will sell, the latter, if packed
at all, should make a third class. Leaves
and twigs ought to bo carefully ex
cluded and the apples should be pressed
in, so there will bo no shaking when
moving tho barrels around after these
are filled and hen led up.—New York
World.
GETTING RID OF QUACK GRASS.
Quack grass, or witch grass, is some
thing not easily gotten r d of. It may
well seem a waste of labor to plow and
cultivate this weed, for the more this is
done intermittently the more it spreads.
Every root will grow and make a new
plant in the course of a few years after it
has been nearly eradicated, being as bad
as ever. Yet continuous culture during
a single growing season will entirely de
stroy it. The cultivation must be often
enough so that not a single spear of the
grass reaches the surface. Where quack
grass has grown unmolested several years
it is a good plan to plow the piece just
deep euough to throw to the surface the
network of main roots which are found
exactly on the hard pan left by the keel
of the plow in previous years. It is often
possible in this way, by careful plowing,
to throw most of the main roots on the
surface, where during the winter they
will freeze and dry so that they can be
raked up in winrows and burned. Con
tinuous cultivation with some hoed crop
will do the business in one season, though
to make sure that none escapes it is bet
ter to plant in hoed crops the second
year. Great care is needed to prevent
this plant spreading from ouc lot all over
tho farm. It spreads by its roots, which
sometimes penetrate potatoes, and are
thus planted by careless farmers. Its
seed usually ripen in August, though we
have seen it ripened in July enough to
grow. Quack fields should not, there
fore, be sown with oats, as both ripen at
the same time.—Courier-Journal.
The Oldest Vessel AjAoat.
The oldest sailing vessel afloat!
What must she look like and what is
her history? She is 110 years old, built
in Baltimore in 1780. Her name is the
Vigilant. She has since then been a coast
er,, a peaceful common carrier of merchan
dise, a slaver and a pirate, and now to-day
she does good service as mail carrier be
tween St. Thomas and Santa Cruz in the
West India Islands. Her owner, Mr. 8.
Penthany, of Santa Cruz, was in Bangot
Sunday and displayed a picture of the ol(j
craft which was taken last summer as the
vessel was roundingn coral reef under full
sail. The picture is a good one and the
lines ol the cruft are well brought nut.
How much of the original craft is there
now?” asked the reporter.
“The keelson and main tributors ol
the hull which are laid In the construction
of her are still there,” said Mr. Penthany,
“and they are good for many years to
come.”
What a story would the history of this
craft make!—Banjor (life.) News.
IT IS A MISTAKE.
To try to save axle grease by letting
the wagon go unoiled.
To save clover by keeping the hogs in
pens.
To save blacksmith bills by letting the
plow go unsharpened.
To use a plow that compels one to wait
till the land is neither too wet nor too
dry, too hard or too soft, before.plowing
in order to save the cost of a first-class
plow.
To let tho stock eat the pasture too
close to save the labor of cutting up a
few acres of corn fodder.
To cut down the milk of the cows to
save the cost of a ton of bran.
To raise a small, cheap horse in order
to save $5 or $10 in stallion fees.
To keep a cow that produces only
enough butter to pay for her feed to save
the money that a profitable cow would
cost.
To make ten cent butter in order to
save the cost of good dairy utensils.
To sell all the hogs because the prices
are low.
To put an ill-fitting harness on a horse
expecting he will do as well with it as
with a well-fitting one.
To crowd the work horses to their ut
most every day and drive them for pleas
ure Sunday.
To use cheap hreediu" 'took when bet
ter can be had.
To keep an animal of auy kind that
costs more than it brings in.
To shrink tho milk of the cows $10 a
month by letting a boy run them from
the pasture in order to save $2 worth of
a hired man’s time.
To keep hogs in filthy pens when there
are good pastures at hand where they
will do better at less expense.
To expect boys to enjoy farm life if
they are made to work every day and all
day without recreation and no means of
enjoyment in reach.— Wettern Plowman.
WHT BUTTER DOES NOT REEF.
J. T. Fowler, Wayne County, N. Y.,
desires advice how to prevent butter from
fading and losing its quality, but as we
are not informed how the milk was set,
the cream cared for, how long the cream
remains unchurned, etc., our answer can
not be very definite.
It cannot be the feed, as butter color
is used; so the fading must be looked
after elsewhere. It the butter is packed
in small crocks, the glazing of the butter
may have been imperfect and the porous
material of the crock absorbed the finer
oils of the butter, and color along with
it, and so bleach out a circle of butter
next to the crock. That the butter gets
“salvcy” would indicate that the tem-
jierature of the cellar was subjected to
ureat extremes, hot and cool, alterna-
ling. This would cause a chemical change
to go on in the elements not butter, and
Hie heat would tend to fuse or rather
causo the butter to lose its globular form
or granulation. By some “chance” the
-alt may be charged with too much lime,
•md so act upon the butter as to cause it
to lose color.
From the fact that tho butter is ell
ri'rht when made, end becomes unsalable
only after being “made two and three
months,” raises the inquiry, why this
butter was not sold as fast at made. In
the long run, the butter maker who holds
butter for two or three months for a rise,
pays fifty per cent, interest on the ven-
ture. The market and tiie consumer do
not want butter that is “old,” or has
been held for a rise. The butter that
brings highest price is that freshest
made. The good butter made yesterday
nlwaya sells highest and is first inquired
for. Holding butter only clogs tho
market when it does flud ita way to tho
city, and its depresdug influence injures
all alike from maker to consumer. The
most successful butter makers are those
who sell their butter as fast as made, and
try to make the bulk of their butter be
tween October and June.
Whatever the cause-of the trouble may
be, wo would auggest'tbat when the milk
is put into the pans or cans to add . to
each four quarts of milk one quart of
water at 125 degrees, and'if possible set
these cans in a tank of cold well water.
Temper the cream evenly, ( and churn at
the first sign of acidity. As soon as the
cream breaks up into distinctive globules
add two gallons of water.and a half tea
cup full of salt to the chum before trying
to remove the buttermilk. This will give
a perfect separation of buttermilk and
butter. Wash twice mere with clear
water. Salt this wet butter with one and
one-fourth ouuccs of salttto the pound
and churn it in. Let it stand an hour
and work over lightly.yand pack into
well-glazed crocks. .CoVer well with a
cloth and a paste of wet salt; set in a
cool, dark place whoro tho temperature
is as near statiouary as- possible, and sell
this butter every week, and if the cows
are well fed andshave wheat shorts and a
little corn-meal.it is not likely that the
butter will fade-or get salvcy.—American
Ayriculturiat. ■
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The income from sheep is always sure,
at least.
Now is the time to weed your flock, if
you have not done it before.
Overcrowding is a fertile cause of the
breeder's worst enemy—roup.
Choose, if possible, for a poultry ranch
a olope to the south or southeast.
There is nothing better for your tur
keys than curds squeezed dry and crum
bled.
Unless care is taken, hogs will begin
to fiul now, unless extra feed is sup
plied.
Cool, sweet water is one of tho most
important factors in the health of the
flock.
In managing the teams it is best not to
use unnecessary words in giving com
mands.
If you have not feed sufficient to keep
the pigs growing, some of them should
be sold.
Do you believe the health of a horse
largely depends upon the cleanliness of
his skin?
A dairy school in every State would
revolutionize tho dairy and creamery
business.
Better throw the grain feed among
straw or leaves and make tho fowls scratch
for their living.
A small lump of pine t«r in the drink
ing water supplied to the fowls will be
found beneficial.
In purchasing a horse, always reject
one that is not a good walker. It is'an
important quality.
Tho failure to make sheep pay can, to
a considerable extent, be traced to'failure
to give proper care.
Destroy old blackberry and raspberry
canes as fast as they become useless, and
thus destroy iusects.
Two full crops—one of weeds and one
of grain or roots—cannot grow on the
same soil at tho same time.
Bet out groves of sugar maple as wind
breaks. In a few years you will have
‘both a windbreak and a sugar orchard.
This is the month you will have to de
termine what birds you will exhibit at
the coming shows. Slake your entries
on time.
In many cases it will pay to purchase
and feed bran, sbipstuff and oil meal to
the growiug pigs. It will be better and
cheaper than corn.
Sugar beets are counted worth ten dol
lars per ton for feeding, and they are as
easily grown as corn or potatoes. They
will keep as well as mangolds.
Blemishes, as well as dis rases, aro
often transmitted to offspring, and for
this reason it is very important to have
the sire, at least, as perfect as possible.
In these days tho fascination of a
“pure bred” is not strong enough to
loosen the purse strings of a business
man unless you show that great profit
may be bad.
Raising plug horses for market rarely
pays. They cost as much to raise as the
better class and sell for much less. Re
member this this fall when engaging a
horse for service.
It is when prices are low and the
margin of profits is small, that it is im
portant to keep a close account with each
class of stock in order to determine
which is the most profitable.
The idea of diluting milk, set foy
cream, with fifty to sixty per cent, of
water is fast gaining headway in the
practice of go ahead dairymen. Try it
and see how it works in your case.
When your heifers come in, weigh and
test their milk for a whole year, so that
yoq can tell without any guess work
which produce the most, and when you
have any to sell, always let the poorest
6°*
Neglected Mild Rico.
When Columbus discovered America
the two most valuable and important
cereals known to the Indians were corn
and wild rice. Corn has been contin-
ua’ly cultivated and greatly improved
three or four centuries, but our
rice lias been sj generally
neglected that few persons seem to know
that such a grain exists, growing along
the banks of thousands of streams, cov
ering millions of acres, in swamps, bays
and salt-water and fresh-water meadows,
the food of myriads of wild ducks’
geese anil other graminivorons birds.
The aborigines of North America knew
the value of anti highly appreciated this
grain, gathered it when ripe, and stored
it in vast quantities for winter. As this
species of rice, like its near relatives, the
cultivated varieties, thrives best in low
ami submerged lands, the Indians could
readily hardest the crop while paddling,
or pushing their canoes through the
dense thickets of this grain-bearing
grass, by merely bending the heads ove'r
their frail vessels, ami either shaking or
beating out the seeds. Many earlv voy
agers and settlers in this country were
highly pleased with this wild rice, and
boaiC of our earlier botanists gave rather
extravagant accounts of its value.
Elliott, in his Botany of South Caro
lina and Georgia, says that “this grass
grows in great abundance near the
mouths of our fresh water rivers. It
constitutes a considerable portion of the
fresh-water marshes, preferring those
situations where the soil is overflowed
one to two feet deep at high water.” He
adds that the leaves are. succulent ami
eaten with avidity by stock, but it does
not appear to have been found of much
importance for forage. There are
really two species of this wild rice, one
with a round grain, the other oblong;
the latter is most common, and extends
much the farthest northward, in fact its
original home appears to be around the
great lakes of the Northwest, from
whence it may have been disscminateil
by the prehistoric races of America or by
the many streams flowing from these re
gions. Kecdmcn do not usually have a
call for the seed, but a visit to almost
any tide-water bay or marsh ou the east
shore of Pennsylvania or New Jersey
duriug November would afford oppor
tunity of gathering an almost unlimited
quantity.—New York Tribune,
A DOCTOR’S CONFESSION.
during
native
He Dnesn’t Take Mneb Medicine ana ad
vises tbe Reporter Not Tn.
“Humbug? Of course it Is. Thesmoalled
science of medicine is a humbug ami has
been from the time of Hippocrates to the
present. Why the biggest crank in the In-
ainn tribes is the medicine man.”
“Very frank was the admission, especially
so when it came from one of the biggest
young physicians of the city, one whose
practice is among t he thousands, though he
has been graduated but a few years,’’ says
the Buffalo Courier. “Very cozy was his of
fice too, witli its cheerful grate fire, its Q'-een
Anne furniture, an t its many lounges and
easy chairs. He stirred the tiro lazily, lighted
a fresh cigar, and went on.”
“Take tiie prescriptions laid down in the
books and what do you find? Poisons mainly,
and nauseating stuffs that would make a
bualthy man an invalid. Why iu tiie world
science should go to oobons for its remedies
lean not toll, nor cun I flud any one who
can.”
“How does a doctor know the effect of his
medicine?” ho asked. “Ha calls, prescribes,
nnd goes away. The only way Jo judge would
be to stand over the bed and viuteh the pa
tient. This cannot ha dona. So really I
don’t know how he is to tail what good or
hurt he does. Sometime ago, you remem
ber, the Boston Olobe sent out a reporter
with a stated set of symptoms. He went to
eleven prominent physicians and brought
back eleven different prescriptions. 1 his
just shows how much science there is iu
medicine.”
There are local diseases of various charac
ters for which nature provides positive reme
dies. They may not Iro included iu tho regu
lar physician's list, perhaps, because of their
simplicity, but the evi lence of their cura
tive power is beyond dispute. Kidney dis
ease is cured by Warner's Safe Cure, a strict
ly herbal remedy. Thousands of persons,
every year, write as does H. J Gardiner, of
Pontiac, R. I., August 7, 1890:
“A few years ago I sufferol more than
probably ever will he known outside of my
self, with kidney nnd liver complaint. It is
the old story—I visited doctor after doctor,
but to no avail. I was at Newport, and Dr.
Blackman recommended Warner’s Safe Cure.
I commence-1 tho use of it, and found relie.
immediately. Altogether I took three tiot-
ties, and I truthfully state that it cured ma.”
Tho Muskrat’s House.
Tho muskrat builds ita house so that
while it has a couple of stories high and
dry on the ground, the entrance to it is
always under wator. This entrance is a
a long tunnel running from a point a
foot or raoto beneath tho water at low
tide line to tho ground floor of tho house
which is always flooded. The muskrat’s
reason for having this subtcrraucan en
trance to his dwelling-place is that there
by he has an exit or au entrance in time
of danger that will not betray him to
his enemies, cither in his flight from
home or in seeking refuge within its
walls. But his instinct docs not warn
him against tho trap his most cunning
and persistent enemy places at his hidden
entrance to his house, changing it from
a way to safety into an avenue to certain
death. This trap is a wooden box, threo
feet long and six inches in width and
dejth. In each end is a wire door, hung
on hinges at the top. These doors rise
at the slightest push on the outside, but
will not open from the inside. The trap
is sunk in the water to the mouth of the
muskrat's tunnel and anchored there,and
whether the muskrat is going out of his
house or returning to it, he is sure to
go into the trap. If he had time, the
captive rodent could gnaw his way out
of the box, but before ho can free hia-
self he will drown. A whole family of
muskrats may be taken in a single night
n otic of these traps.— Courier JounuiL
Japanese Vegetable Paper.
This paper is manufactured largely in
Japan from the bast fibres of a shrub
which grows wildly over the middle and
southern parts of the country. The bast
paper—used in the home country for a
great number of purposes, such ns ban
dages, etc.—possesses au astonishing
tenacity and flexibility, combining the
softness of silk paper with the cohesion
of a woven fabric; it is so thin that tho
ttnest writing can be read through it, yet
it ia torn oniy with great difficulty.
Commercially the paper is known in
Japan as usego; as put upon the market
it has a uniform yellowish-white color
and a silky lustre.—New York Journal.
A Novelty in Bookbinding.
A novcltj in bookbinding is announced
in the employment in it of metal as a
substitute for cardboard. A special
preparation is first necessary, nnd tbo
leather may be bent and straightened
again without perceptible damage, a
course of treatment that would destroy
cardboard covers. The metal is covered
with any material that taste may dictate,
nnd the finished book shows no differ*
onto in appearance, excepting in a
gre 'tcv thinuess of the cover, which in
uittays desirable.—Picayune.
Surviving Signs of Celtfo Initiicnci
The ‘Journal of the English Anthro
pological Institute'' contains some curious
observations by T. W. Shore, on the sur
viving signs of Celtic influence in Hai_p
shire. In that county uu fewer than
seventy of tbe oldest churches ‘Irew’-
twenty degrees north of eist, instead oi
due east and west. Their orientation it
thus on the line of the old May day sun
rise, a poritl-n reverenced by the Uelta.
—Nett York Post.
For its 125,000 people, Denver, Col.,
has 09 churches: 10 Methodist, 8 Pres
byterian, 8 Congrcgatioualist, 9 Baptist,
7 Roman, 0 Lutheran, 5 Episcopalian, 2
Disciples nr Campbollites, 2 Jewish, I
German Reformed, 1 Unitarian and I
UniveraalisL ^
The Vice-President of the United
Stales gets $8000 a year.
The hop crop of Oregon for 1890 ia es
Unrated at 18,000 balea.
FITS stopped friv. by Dit. Klinr's Qurat
Nrhvr Krktohkr. No (He after first day’s use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise au 1 %'! trial b itlle
free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St.. I’kila., I 'a.
In the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the
sphiux symbolized wisdom and power.
HowN Thin ?
We offer One !iun<lre«l l).»!lars reward for
any ca oof catarrh that u;inn>v bj cured by
tnkinK Hair' Gatarrh Cure.
K. L. Chlnky A: Co., Props , Toledo, O.
We, the undeisUine.i, have known F. J.
Cheney tor the hint la years am! believe him
per fee ly h* norabte in all bu Inez* transac
tions, and financially able to carryout any
obliuations made bv their firm.
West & Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Tole
do, O.
Waldino, Kinnan & Makvin, Wholesale
Druggists, To’e to, ().
Hali’s Catarrh < lire Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the hloo I and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testiiu » .inis sent free.
Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
A ln*y appetit* bothers the rich man
grout deal more than an active one does th
poor man
An Inventor’s Folly.
A. few months ago an inventor of oer-j
lain apparatus of a very simple character,
which could have been readily duplicated
In many different forms, was offered
16000 for tho right to a certain inland
town. He was a poor man and needed
Ihe money badly. The reader supposes,
of course, that tho inventor jumped at
the chance and pocketc l the mouey on
the spot. Not he; he told the buyer
that the patent was worth $100,000,
and he was not going to sell one town
in New York State for $6000. Tho
tame inventor was offered a similar sum
for another large town in the State, or
$10,000 for only two cities iu tho coun
try, but he refused to take it. We have
these facts from tho inventor himself,
ind they arc correct. Before it was too
late to negotiate we berated tbe man
roundly for his folly, but he was deaf to
argument. The sequel was that the in
ventor never sold a single right, and has
his patent to this day.—Mnginetring.
A Five-Logged Calf.
B. S. Staples, of Belfast, Mo., bn* on
exhibition at the Phtenix House stable a
steer calf with five legs. The fifth one
starts from the nigh hind gambrel joint
and branches down with a perfect foot,
upon which lie steps tbe same as upon
the others. In addition to this freak of
nature the calf is a beauty, being only
six mouths old, and weighing 615 pounds.
His girth is four feet nine inches.— : <
—Picayune.
Trades nnd Orcupatlonii.
The Youth’s Companion for 1891 will give
an instructive and helpful Series of Papers,
t*a<*h of which doseribos the character of some
leading Trade for Hoys or Occupation for
Girls. They give information as to the Ap
prenticeship required to learn each,the Wages
to he expected, the (Qualities needed in order
to enter, and the prospects of Success. To New
Subscribers who send $1.76 at once the paper
will be sent frrx to Jan. 1. 1891, and for a /ull
year from thit date. Address,
Tub Youth’s Comfaxiok, Boston, Mass.
the o?i of tfrasshoppera a Spanish in
i.t’T t > make the finest soap ye:
i col.
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches
In Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Kcon ruy is wealth; but It Isa kind of
t. ahh that the lich man finds it hard to
laiisfer to his si.n.
Woman, her diseases ami their treatment.
72 p’lge , illustrated; price 50c. IS nt upon re
ceipt of iOc , cost of mailing, etc. Address
Prof. R. If Klink, M. I) , Ml Arch 8t.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
White pine boards are now made by re
Jucmg small trues and limbs to pulp and
pro sing in molds.
For Impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bith rs-it gives strength,
making old persons feel young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to lake.
The pr< adier fails who tries to preach a
• ctrine that hasn't been tested in nis own
"wait.
OklahomaGuide Book nnd Man sent any where
on receipt of 50cts.Tyler & Co., Kansas City,Mo.
The toughest fowl can be made eatable If
put i*i« o1d water, j lenty of it, and cookat
v. rj slowly from five to six hours.
Do You Ever Speculate ?
Any person sondimr us their namo an 1 a 1-
Iress w II receive in for nation that will leal
to a fortune. Beni. Lewis <fe C-»., Security
Building, Kansas (. ity. Mo.
Fie tests enough whose wife scolds at din
•< r lime.
Leo Wa’s Chinese Headache Cure. Harm
less in effect, quick and positive in action.
Kent prepaid cm receipt of £1 per bottle.
Adder & Co.,522 Wyandotte st.,Kansas City,Mo
L vo n ver has to be watched to see that it
u cs a full day’s work.
For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
disorders, use* Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Best
'ionic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Blood
and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton
ic for weak and debilitated persons.
’>.e now does not fly from a oornfldd
Gth ut caws.
If atfl’Ctel with sore eyes use Dr. Th< m
•n’s Rye wator. Druggist sell at 25c per hoi tie
OlVB KJVJOY®
Both the method and wsultg when
Byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidney*,
Liver and Rowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels cold*, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
Constipation. 6jrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its a ind ever p
duced, pleating to the taste and i
ceptable to the stomach,
. * —-———t prompt
its action and trul,* beneficial in
iro-
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in
its
if
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most ponular remedy known.
Byrup of k ig* i, for sale in 60o
•nd 81 bottles hv all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute.
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MUSICAL
There seems to bo little going on
in musical circles of late, but thero
is much talk, among musical people,
of the marvelous cure of Miss B ,
the high contralto singer, who has
long suffered from a severe, throat
or bronchial affection, superinduced,
by Catarrh in the Head, and who
has been perfectly cured by the
use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy,’
coupled with the use of Dr. Pierce 8
Golden Medical Discovery. For
all bronchial, throat and lung affec
tions, and lingering coughs, it is an
uncqualed remedy. When compli
cated with Chronic Nasal Catarrh,
its use should he coupled with the
use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
Of all druggists.
i ff i/oti Imre (t
iCOLD or COUCH,
nrute or Ictullntc lo
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' ting properties of tlio lliipofih^sphitcs
I and fhio hioncrflhin Cod Lirrr Oil. r8**d
J bv physicians nil tho world over. I* H
I palatable as milk. Throe tlmoa as effl. r
clous ns plain Cod Liver Oil A perfect
I Emulsion, hotter than another* nmdo. l or
I all forms of MYi.sfinf/ Diseases, llronrhitis f
coysrjinrrox.
Scrofula, anfl us a Flesh Producer
| there is nothing like SCOTT'S FMULSI0N.
It Is sold by nil Druggist*. Let no. ?,o hv
| profuse explanation or impii'lont, enu’eaty
1 Induce you to accept a suhbilt ute.
Tf.n Cksts. Handsome Md plat-d cluinn nnd clunr
1 cutter combined. Krc I Swju thnioro, Pa
TRINITY COLLEGE.
A High grade 0 oil ego for Young fh-n
Best Instruction, leading to Five Degree*.
Reasonable Expenses $! Vi to $.* u ,*t ye.tr.
Five new buildings to be erected I his year.
86 ui atriculates and graduates In recent state
Ulature.
bend for Catalogue, Bulletin, I>egrr« Dook. Etc
Free.
Jobs F. Crowell, A. B.. Dr. Litt., Pres.,
Trinity College, Randolph i)o. t Of
Next term opens January 1st.
For a Disordered liver
TryBEECH&il'S SKILLS. |
25cts. a Box.
OF .A. Ira to DRUOaisiTS.
C
ORN Meal, Flour &MiMeed.
WHITE FOR I'KM’fcS.
RICHMOND CITY MILLS.
3400 to 3500 Williniunbiirz Ave.*
RICHMOND, yiKClMt.
AST H M A FREE
by ■all lit •offerer*. Dr K SClllFFMAN, St Fsat.lUa.
UnilF D Y. book-geeping. Business Forms ?
Feuinnuahlp. Arithmetic, Short-band, etc.
■ ■ thorougniy taught by MAIL. Circulars fret*
Bryittll'M to!leg*.. I/J? Main st., PuIThIo, N Y.
PATENTS
luventor’n tJiilrte,
or How to Obtain
n 1'nteut. Sent Free,
ttoniey nt Lnw,
O’Farrell, uAMUiN.vroN, p. a
I >• ud Whiskey Hablta
cured at home with
out nain. Book of par-
| ticniars sent HIKE.
„ JB.M WOOLLEYJfJX
r Atlanta. Hu. oUue luB u Whitehall 8t
POSl fi VKi-Y H K ME DIED-
Oreely Pant Stretcher.
BAGGY KNEES
Adopted br students nt llarvarl, .tmia rit. nnd other
< oilfgee, also, hv professional and business men every
where. If not for sale ill ymir town .’■end 25c. to
B. J. OREELY. 716 WaahhiEton Street. Boston
S N U - 47
FOR A ONftt.D01.LAK lltl.I, neat u. by mafl
Jv* deliver, free ot all charges, to anv person 1»
the United States, all of the following articles, care
fully packet:
One tTPoounoe bottle of Pure Viueltne, - - lOeO.
One tw°.om,ce tmttle of Vaseline Pomade. - 15 ^
One jar of Vaflelinc Cold Cream, - - . - ia *
one Ci-ke of Vaseline Camphor Ice, ..-.10*
One t ake of \aeeline Sosp, unsocuted, - - 10*
One Cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely seen ted,39 “
One tw o-onnoe bottle or White Vaseline, - - 25 ”
Or for postage stamp’j any single a rticle at On ■ J
named. On no account be persuaded to accept from
r . an y..or preparation therefrom
unien labelled with our name, because you will OSP’
tainip receive an imitation which has HttU or no maim
' a«a.*T»nrt Mf«. Ce.. -J4 Hiai. 9,., R. r.
'n
HEAD
RELIEVES INSTANTLY.
I ELY BKOTUEKS. 58 Warren St. New York. Price B0 f!a
PENSION 111
Is Pissed.^: “
1 «ra and Father* are e*
Fee 910 when too ret year raoaef
L Ittr. VmLImIm. * I
Ringing Noises
In Oi» ft-ars, sometimes u roaring, biuzing sound, or
^napping like Ihe repot, of a pistol, are caused by
•rttnrrh, that exceedingly dl agreeable and very
common disei*?*. Lons of smell or bearing also re
rtiisfiom catarrh. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great
o ood purifier, is a j ecu'iur ly suceessful remedy for
•at.iri li, which li < uro* by eradicating from the
»lood Ihe impurity which caust’s and promotes th s
•I sease. Try Hood's Sarsaparilla.
•*l used Hood’s Sarsaparilla for catarrh, and ro
elved great relief and beuaflt from it. Tbe catarrh
wn* very disagreeable, especially in the wl iter,
causing constant discharge from my nose, rlngbi;
hoI.acs in my cars, and pains In tne bock of my head
he effor to clear my head tn the morning by hawk
•HR and spitting was painful. Hood's .‘arsaparllla
nave me’ tell f Immediately, while In time 1 was ea
iIn ly cured. I am never without Ihe med c no l u
my house as I think It is worth ita weight In gold.”
-Mus. U. 11. Uibu, 10;’9 Eighth Street, N. VV., Wash
ugton, D. C.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla ,
*.l.l l.y ull clruiifttfU. ft; six for $5. Prepuret out,
oy l\ 1. HOOD A CO.. Lowell. Mau.
IOO Doses One Dollar
DON’T!!
DON’T buy a 10*cent Cigar when you can get as
good a one for 5 c-nis. our “DON’T” brand is j
equal to the majority of IOc. (.'Ha A RS and needs
only a trial to convince tho trade of Its merits.
Manufactured • nly by \V. II. ELLIS ifcl'O.,
\\ in si un, N. ('. “T cL irgest Cigar Firm in N. C.’*
TH* JffOriDCRFt L IUV'
.UBURG\CHAI
C0MBINING5ARTIClES)s£iftJt#J
or rURNJTURE.
7n VALID
SVtTVVS.'S
AND
|*IA\wheel
i\C HAIRS.
We teUil at the Iwesi
uhilfsnlt factory priett,
and *b J p goods io bo
E d for on delivery,
id stamp for (Jata-
ne. A'ame goods desired,
[ irniiLmuiS
t TO MISB.
Ibprciai. ran
DKL1VM1.
A MONTH O Bright Young Men or
A Hoard for Lndien in each County.
P.W. Ziegler «& < o., Philadelphia,P*
I prescribe and fully en-
dorse Kig <• as Ihe only
specific for Hie certain cura
of t Ids disease.
(!. II. INliUAHAM.M. P.,
Amsterdam, N. Y.
We have sold Big C3 for
many years, nnd It has
given tiie best of satie-
fstciion.
I>. It. DYCHRACO..
Chicago, 111.
HarfcTSLOO* Bold by Druggists.
For Coughs^Colds
Tiler, is no Sl.dlcin. lik.
OR. SCHENCK'S
PULMONIC
® SYRUP.
It is pleasant to the teste and
docs not contain a particle of
opiumorsnything Injurious. It
isthe Host Cough Medlrlnsinthe
World. Fur Sale hy all Druggists,
Price, fl.00 per bottle Dr. Schenrk's Book oh
Consumption end its Cure, mailed free. Addrai
Dr. J. H. tiobenck & Bon, Philadelphia,
LUVUKa MFC. CO., 14S N. Mtb St* Fkiute^rt
P INOS KEMEDY FOR CATA It Ull.—Best. Easiest to use.
Cheapest. Relief Is imine'
Cold In the Head it has no equal.
CATAR R H
It Is au Ointment, of which a small particle is applied to tho
■ *-- - ‘ ” mall.
DoitriU. Trice, toe.
Addreafc
Hold by drugelsts or sent by rna
’ 1 X Uahu.ii.Nil, WaiiMi, ra.